See MOSAC’s new ARx Live exhibit bringing science and art together

We met about a year ago on like an artist and scientist speed dating. Yep, that's exactly how I describe it. Yeah, so the program had all the artists and the researchers get together and we did like a little five-minute meet of each other and we ended up thinking it was a good idea to work together. Yeah, I confess that Melissa was my top choice and I rarely get my top choice in anything, but this time I did because Melissa's art just really spoke to me. It's so lively and it has such emotion to it when I saw it and I thought that that would be a great storyteller for the research that I do. So we solicited drawings from children maybe ages three. I think the oldest we got was maybe 13 or 14. Just simple line drawings from their imagination. They couldn't have had help from parents or any adults. They couldn't have copied anything. It needed to be strictly from their imagination and then we took those drawings and turned them into neon lights. And the idea behind it was what from the from some of our earliest conversations is what sort of creativity and art can be done when you put down your devices and when you think for yourself and when you have to collaborate with other people which is the goal of this piece. The piece is called Within the Shadow of a Doubt. It's a play on word. The phrase, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meaning there's absolute certainty, and I just, I liked, I liked playing off the shadows, of course, but then also as I worked with my researcher and read about his, the things he's been researching, especially as it relates to like hallucinations with AI. I just kept coming back to like there's no certainty with any of this public reception, how it works, just AI is this very big unknown and so I like to name that that was a nod to that. Explore old technology because that's kind of part of it for me is I When I was learning about how AI works it reminded me of how teachers would use overhead projectors in classrooms and the way you'd follow along on their handwriting as they're doing equations or writing something out just kind of reminded me of that and so I wanted to use it's a two-fold thing where I wanted to kind of mimic AI with humanity how it's working how we actually used to do things and I think benefit from a human hand and mind, but then also leverage old technology.